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Book by Small earns accolades

Posted October 28, 2005; 06:35 p.m.

by Ruth Stevens

Mario Small, assistant professor of sociology, has won two awards for his book, "Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio."

He received the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of
Social Problems and the Robert E. Park Award from the Community and
Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

The book, published in 2004 by the University of Chicago Press,
examines the relationship among poverty, community participation and
social isolation in a predominantly Puerto Rican housing complex.

Small, a Princeton faculty member since 2002, also is a faculty
associate of Princeton's Office of Population Research. He specializes
in urban poverty, social capital, inequality and culture, and
immigration.